Assuming that a particular day to day activity/posture, may provoke/produce one’s pain, often leads to an irrational, fear-induced avoidance, of that activity/posture.
Unfortunately it’s often the patient’s well-wishers, and the self surfed internet advice, which seeds the fear avoidance behaviour in individuals. Often it’s also a prior painful memory, associated with the same activity/posture. Sometimes the doctors might have asked the patient to abstain from certain aggravating activities for that episode of pain, but the patient tends to hold on to that avoidance advise for years, thus limiting optimum movement capability, restricting daily normal functionality.
If you have not discontinued your physio midway just because your pain vanished, and rather undergone your physio rehab until you have been officially discharged, then you should be able to do all your provocative movements without fear of pain or pain itself.
Don’t let assumptions and hypothesis, handicap you mentally and eventually physically.
An open mind and a frank communication with your physio, can clear a lot of these unnecessary handicaps.
Be cautious, be concerned, but you don’t need to cross the thin line between concern to worry.
Time to tackle the barriers, albeit the mental ones, don’t venture out. Maintain Quarantine. 🙂🙏
Warm Regards
Dr Abhishek Bangera and Team.